Autobiography of Matthew Scott, Jumbo's Keeper; Also Jumbo's Biography, by the same Author

By Matthew Scott

Autobiography of Matthew Scott, Jumbo's Keeper includes a short autobiography of the author, who worked for the Zoological Society in London and was caretaker for the elephant Jumbo, and a biography of Jumbo the elephant.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Good Press
• Release date: May 19, 2021
• ISBN: 4064066096014

Matthew Scott

Matthew Scott nació y creció en Nueva Orleans. Arquitecto de formación y cocinero de vocación, tras viajar a París y Madrid durante sus años como estudiante, sintió la llamada de los fogones y se dedicó por completo a la cocina. Así se originó Gumbo, el restaurante que ha liderado durante casi dos décadas en el ecléctico barrio de Malasaña en Madrid. A lo largo de estos años, Scott ha mantenido el espíritu de Nueva Orleans tanto en la carta como en el ambiente del local y su equipo. Tras la pandemia, el chef decidió poner fin a esta etapa y despedirse de Gumbo para dedicarse al desarrollo de su primer libro, NOLA. La cocina de Nueva Orleans.

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Matthew Scott

Autobiography of Matthew Scott, Jumbo's Keeper; Also Jumbo's Biography, by the same Author

Published by Good Press, 2021

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EAN 4064066096014

Table of Contents

CHAPTER I.

MY BIRTH-PLACE AND START IN LIFE.

CHAPTER II.

MY FIRST EXPERIENCE AS A KEEPER.

CHAPTER III.

MY EXPERIENCE WITH BIRDS AT KNOWSLEY.

CHAPTER IV.

MY LIFE AT LORD DERBY’S SEAT, KNOWSLEY, ENGLAND.

CHAPTER V.

MY EXPERIENCES IN THE ZOÖLOGICAL SOCIETY’S GARDENS, LONDON—ALSO SOME REMARKS ABOUT A STRANGE BIRD, THE APTERYX.

CHAPTER VI.

THE PECULIAR NATURE AND HABITS OF THE APTERYX—THE STRANGEST OF ALL BIRDS.

CHAPTER VII.

MORE ABOUT THE APTERYX AND OSTRICH TRIBE GENERALLY.

CHAPTER VIII.

THE LANDSEER MEDAL, PRESENTED TO ME BY THE ZOÖLOGICAL SOCIETY, LONDON, 1866—CONCLUSION OF AUTOBIOGRAPHY.

CHAPTER I.

JUMBO’S FIRST APPEARANCE AT THE ZOÖLOGICAL GARDENS, LONDON.

CHAPTER II.

JUMBO’S COMPANION ELEPHANT ALICE, AT THE ZOÖLOGICAL GARDENS, LONDON.

CHAPTER III.

JUMBO AS A SWIMMER.

CHAPTER IV.

JUMBO’S BUSY LIFE AT THE ZOÖLOGICAL GARDENS, AND HIS LOVE FOR LITTLE CHILDREN.

CHAPTER V.

JUMBO’S FONDNESS FOR MUSIC AND HIS KEEPER.

CHAPTER VI.

ARRANGEMENTS MADE BY MR. P. T. BARNUM, THE GREATEST SHOWMAN ON EARTH, TO EXHIBIT JUMBO IN THE UNITED STATES.

CHAPTER VII.

JUMBO’S DEEP GRIEF ON PARTING WITH HIS WIFE ALICE.

CHAPTER VIII.

JUMBO’S DEPARTURE FROM ENGLAND AND VOYAGE TO THE UNITED STATES.

CHAPTER IX.

JUMBO’S HABITS, GOOD AND BAD, AND HIS GREAT POPULARITY.

CHAPTER X.

ACCIDENTS CAUSED HIS KEEPER BY JUMBO; ALSO, HOW HE SAVED HIS KEEPER’S LIFE.

CHAPTER XI.

JUMBO’S TRIP OVER THE GREAT BROOKLYN BRIDGE—DESCRIPTION OF THE STRUCTURE, ETC.

CHAPTER XII.

HOW JUMBO WAS IMPRESSED BY THE GREAT BRIDGE—VARIOUS INCIDENTS AND CONCLUSIONS.

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MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY.

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CHAPTER I.

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MY BIRTH-PLACE AND START IN LIFE.

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I purpose giving to the world, for the benefit of my fellow-men, my humble and truthful history. I have many times thought I would do so, not for my own glory, but for the enlightenment of such people as are anxious to obtain knowledge. It is only to-day, January 14, 1885, that I have concluded to set about writing it, and I purpose to give a faithful record of my life, setting forth the various experiences through which I have passed.

I was born at Knowsley, Lancashire, England, in 1834. It was the seat of Lord Derby, the grandfather of the present earl; and from a child I learned to love that family.

The Earls of Derby were, and are, among the greatest statesmen of England.

My start in life was very humble, and I have even now, in my fifty-first year, very little to boast of with regard to this world’s goods. I have lived with Jumbo day and night for twenty years of my life. I am what is called a self-made man, and can boast that the knowledge and experience I possess, I have learned while living with wild beasts, latterly in the company of my friend and companion Jumbo, the greatest known animal on earth. I suppose my companion and I have seen more human faces than most people, and I have spoken to as many people as almost any other man. My life has been, perhaps, as peculiar and checkered as that of any man of my time of life; yet I claim nothing but to show to the people of the United States and Great Britain, to whom this book is dedicated, what an humble son of toil has passed through in the precarious, though to me, pleasant, occupation of keeper, breeder, and lover of the beasts and birds of the forests and fields of all countries and climes.

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CHAPTER II.

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MY FIRST EXPERIENCE